AI-generated image description: Table showing payroll job growth rates, equivalent monthly jobs, net approval ratings, and popular vote margins for US presidential incumbents from 1948 to 2004.

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Payroll Job Growth, Approval Ratings and Popular Vote Margin
Year Incumbent Net Payrolls Growth Rate, May-October of Election Year Equivalent Monthly Jobs Net Approval Rating as of May 1 Popular Vote Margin of Victory or Defeat
1948 Truman +2.2% +342,000 -11 +4.5
1956 Eisenhower -0.3% +62,000 +51 +15.4
1964 Johnson +1.6% +274,000 +65 +22.6
1972 Nixon +3.1% +439,000 +17 +23.2
1976 Ford +0.6% +155,000 +9 -2.1
1980 Carter -1.9% -120,000 -4 -9.7
1984 Reagan +3.0% +426,000 +15 +18.2
1992 Bush -0.3% +

Originally embedded in "Has Obama’s Magic Jobs Number Changed?", an article by Nate Silver: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/has-obamas-magic-jobs-number-changed/

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